The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 95

But in the land of the Hindoos, marriage is like being born or dying, a matter of course, a thing necessary, inevitable, essential, _quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus_.

Who acts: Hindoos, _, course · What happens: bear, die, quod, matter · To what, where: marriage, semper, land, ubique, ab omnibus

This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hindoos, _, course), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	31 quod	cc
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 land	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 land	det
4	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 quod	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Hindoos	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Hindoos	det
7	Hindoos	Hindoo	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 land	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 born	punct
9	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 born	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 born	aux:pass
11	like	like	SCONJ	_	13 born	mark
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 born	aux:pass
13	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Hindoos	acl
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 dying	cc
15	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 born	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 matter	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 matter	det
18	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 land	parataxis
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 course	case
20	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 matter	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 thing	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 thing	det
23	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 matter	conj
24	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 thing	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 inevitable	punct
26	inevitable	inevitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 necessary	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 essential	punct
28	essential	essential	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 necessary	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 land	punct
30	_	_	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 quod	nsubj
31	quod	quod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	semper	semper	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 quod	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 quod	punct
34	quod	quod	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 quod	conj
35	ubique	ubique	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 quod	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 quod	punct
37	quod	quod	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 quod	conj
38	ab	ab	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 omnibus	compound
39	omnibus	omnibus	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 quod	obj
40	_	_	PUNCT	_	37 quod	punct
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 quod	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	bear	present · passive	the Hindoos not said here	marriage		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	die	gerund	the Hindoos not said here			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	quod	present	_	semper	the land of the Hindoos a matter of course and a thing	tree rules
4	quod	infinitive	_ not said here	ubique		tree rules
5	quod	infinitive	_ not said here	ab omnibus		tree rules
6	matter		course			nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 1, sentence 95